Goffredo Parise's quest to capture the essence of human sentiment in prose-poem form resulted in the publication in 1972 of Sillabario N. 1, which contained twenty-two stories with titles proceeding alphabetically from amore through famiglia. Sillabario N. 2, made up of a further thirty-two stories that trace the emotions from felicita to solitudine, was published in 1982. Characterized by the same clarity found in Abecedary, Solitudes is a series of exquisite miniatures that form a bittersweet exploration of the joy and the melancholy of life.